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    Daedalus: SWIC Basejump from Fred Noonan Skyport
    Daedalus: SWIC Basejump from Fred Noonan Skyport
    Daedalus: SWIC Basejump from Fred Noonan Skyport
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    Daedalus: SWIC Basejump from Fred Noonan Skyport

    By Robert G. Williscroft

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    Using a new Gryphon-7 hard-shell wingsuit, Tiger Baily, irreverent member of the Navy SEALS Winged Insertion Command, makes a harrowing first experimental base jump from the edge of Space, the Fred Noonan Skyport 80,000 meters above Jarvis Island in the Equatorial Pacific. Tiger’s target, which he must reach to survive, is Kiritimati Island, a tiny isolated atoll 379 km northeast of Jarvis over ever-threatening and oh-so-deep ocean waters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFresh Ink Group
    Release dateJun 21, 2019
    ISBN9781947867581
    Daedalus: SWIC Basejump from Fred Noonan Skyport

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      Daedalus - Robert G. Williscroft

      A strange thing happened to me while reading Robert G. Williscroft’s story Daedalus: I felt it hard to believe it was fiction. Earlier, I had read his novel Slingshot about the world’s first Space Launch Loop, and since Daedalus follows it, I should have known it was fiction. Still, this hard science-fiction tale is told with such vivid, realistic, sometimes visceral detail and moment-by-moment suspense that I almost completely lost myself in it. When I finished the story, I felt I had shared Derek Tiger Baily’s harrowing flight in his Gryphon-7 wingsuit.

      Why is Derek risking his life? Simple: they need to test the limits of Gryphon-7, which is "an entirely new kind of weapon, or perhaps delivery system." Carried above by the Space Loop, he falls in his full-body, fuel-supplied spacesuit 80,000 meters toward the Earth. He is a true pioneer, the first to attempt this journey, and there are unexpected surprises and dangers along the way. Don’t miss the ride!

      — Professor John B. Rosenman, Norfolk State University

      Former Chairman of the Board, Horror Writers Association

      Author of The Inspector of the Cross Series

      Afraid of Heights?

      Then you won’t make it as a member of SEAL Winged Insertion Command.

      For a once in a lifetime thrill, follow the thoughts and actions of Derek Tiger Bailey, most adept member of Second Platoon, First Squad as he wrings out the details of making a wingsuit jump from a platform eighty kilometers (fifty miles) above Jarvis Island on the Equator in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Tiger Bailey reached that platform using the Slingshot space portal system described in Robert G. Williscroft’s richly detailed series of hard science fiction novels, The Starchild Trilogy. But rather than launch into space from the Fred Noonan Skyport, Tiger Bailey attempts a 236-mile traverse over the ever threatening and oh-so-deep ocean waters. This is what SEALs do, test new means of surreptitiously inserting themselves into combat zones.

      While the beginning and middle of Williscroft’s short story are mesmerizing, the fifty-mile high drop and long distance transit will have you holding your breath.

      Much to Williscroft’s credit, the physics and dynamics of Tiger’s record-breaking flight seem spot on.

      This story won’t take you long to read, but I promise you’ll keep thinking about it for a long time.

      – Dr. John R. Clarke

      Author of The Jason Parker Series

      Williscroft’s usual attention to technical detail and firsthand experience with military ops pays off in this wild tale set in the world of his Slingshot, about the first wingsuit jump from a launch loop.

      – Alastair Mayer

      Author of The T-Space Series

      Daedalus is a science fiction short story that blends the boundaries of fact and fiction as seamlessly as the late master, Michael Crichton. It’s the type of story that leaves you asking questions and discussing with your coworkers in the break room. The story is told by Derek Tiger Baily, a member of an elite SEAL team who completes the first jump in an experimental wingsuit from a skyport 80 km above the Earth. Now, if you’ve read Slingshot, a full-length sci-fi thriller published by Williscroft a few years ago (see my review—5 stars for this well-crafted and thought-provoking story) you’ll know all about the skyport, a marvel of engineering that could be close to being realized (really!). And if you haven’t read Slingshot, no worries because an excerpt is thoughtfully included at the end of Daedalus.

      Tiger is a self-professed adrenalin junkie who doesn’t shy away from a challenge. I won’t share any spoilers here, because it is best to allow yourself to become one with Tiger as he flies his wingsuit to his target landing zone – a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean. What begins as a normal drop soon turns into a terrifying descent into Nature’s fury that will leave you in a cold sweat.

      Is Daedalus fact or fiction? I’ll leave it to you to decide. Oh, and pick up The Starchild Trilogy – but be prepared to have your world

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